In message <4b.2c974ea0.2bb65e77@aol.com>, CDKnow@aol.com writes >The groom is Robert Birkett and says his father is Irving Birkett. (Bride is >Sarah Carlton Stobart, widow). The father's profession is faint but it looks >to be Lawyer. >Was that term in use in England in 1874 for the legal profession ? > >I have other known letters on the cert and feel certain that it is _awyer. >Unfortunately the first letter is the faintest and there's no capital L to >compare to. In reality, then it can only be either Lawyer or Sawyer. You can find out, however, from the birth certificate of Robert BIRKETT (or a baptism record) as both will state his father's occupation. Regards Rod Neep -- British-Genealogy.com - For British Family History web : http://www.british-genealogy.com